State v. Massenburg

BRYANT, Judge.

Where the trial court’s Allen charge to the jury was in substantial compliance with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1235, there was no coercion of the jury verdict. Where the sentence imposed was within the presumptive range, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by imposing an intermediate sanction of special probation.

On 10 December 2012, defendant Eric D. Massenburg was indicted on charges of felonious breaking or entering and assault inflicting serious bodily injury. The matter was brought to trial during the 7 May 2013 session in Wake County Superior Court, the Honorable G.…